Rural development schemes get Rs 5,087 crore budgetary facelift

The rural roads in the state are all set to get a facelift with the 2013-14 budget adequately making provisions for it.

TNN | Feb 20, 2013, 02.45 AM IST

LUCKNOW: The rural roads in the state are all set to get a facelift with the 2013-14 budget adequately making provisions for it. An amount of Rs 3,107 crore has been proposed for construction and upgrading of rural roads. A provision of Rs 287 crore has been made under the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Samagra Gram Vikas Yojana for construction of CC roads, KC drains and laying of interlocking tiles in internal lanes to improve rural accessibility. The UP government also decided to connect about 10,000 villages with link roads under the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Samagra Gram Vikas Yojana. In all, 2100 villages will be connected with link roads in the year 2013-14.

A whopping Rs 5,087 crore has been provided for rural development programmes in the budget 2013-14. It includes Rs 756 crore at the rate of Rs 1.5 crore per electoral constituency under the 'Vidhan Mandal Kshetra Vikas Nidhi' scheme. With a view to check the damage caused by incidents of fire in rural areas, provision is being made to sanction the amount for purchase of fire brigade vehicles and for medical treatment of poor persons out of the Vidhayak Nidhi.

To boost rural employment guarantee scheme, Rs 400 crore has been allocated for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The budget provides Rs 702 crore under the backward region grant scheme for development of backward areas. All the villages with a population of more than 10,000 persons and also those having contaminated water will be covered under the scheme of piped water supply as in urban areas of the state.

To eradicate rural unemployment, the National Rural Employment Mission is being launched in the state to make the 'Swarn Jayanti Rozgar Yojana' more result-oriented. Besides, 162 multipurpose panchayat bhawans will be constructed under Panchayat Bhawan/Bharat Nirman Sewa Kendra Scheme, in non-BRGF (Backward Region Grant Fund) districts like Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Bulandshahr and Muzaffarnagar.

In 2012-13, a target of providing 4,200 lakh man days of employment to 80 lakh families under MGNREGS was set. The last year's budget also proposed to implement a scheme of installing 41,000 new hand pumps, re-boring of another 41,000 hand pumps and 800 piped water supply schemes. Rs 5,311.84 crore was allocated for different schemes of the Panchayati Raj, and Rs 51.85 crore was proposed for construction of toilets under the Total Sanitation Drive.

Rs 702 crore has been given under backward region grant scheme for development of backward areas

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